Module+2+(Summer)

Module 2

 * You should be finishing your community description (an individual assignment), due July 12th on Dropbox. **


 * Then, you and your partner should pick a set of writing samples and a community (that corresponds to the writing samples) to focus on for the LD study. You will both need to be familiar with the community description that matches the writing samples so that you can design lessons with the discourses of this community in mind. ****Your "concepts to teach" and lesson plans are collaborative assignments that you will work on together. **

__For 7/14 Online Class __

1. Read the introduction and chapters 1-4. How is this different than TSG? Refer to the chart you created in class. Andersen, J. (2005). Mechanically inclined: Building grammar, usage, and style into writer’s workshop. Portland, ME: Stenhouse.

Assignments Due (Linguistic Dimensions Study)
Due 7/12 - Community Description

Due 7/16 (by the start of class) – Concepts to Teach (collaborative assignment)

Due 7/16 (by the start of class) – Draft of 3 Lesson Plans (collaborative assignment)

Online Assignments
//**Check Your Grammar **//

__Due by our Face to Face class, 7/16 __

1. Before class on 7/16, take at least one PSAT grammar quiz—choose any of the six “identifying sentence error” quizzes—and bring your results to class (print them out or take a screenshot). []

2. Take an additional short quiz on grammar definitions and note the terms that were difficult for you. []

__Due by our Face to Face class, 7/23 __

//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Sharing Grammar Resources **//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">3. Contribute to one of the following two pages on the wiki:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Two entries to the @Sentence Gems page (based on Anderson, p.40)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">One entry to the @Focused Freewrite page (based on Anderson, p.31-32)

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">4. Watch the Contrastive Analysis video (under "Course Documents" on the blog). Consider the following questions as you watch. Jot down some thoughts on these questions when you're finished, and bring them to our next class.


 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you notice about the lesson?
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Explain how contrastive analysis differs from traditional instruction. Consider knowledge, expectations, and any other differences you feel are important.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What do you think about teaching by contrastive analysis?

//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Twitter as a Professional Resource (Extra Credit, or Absence Make-Up Assignment) **//

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">5. Extra Credit. Participate in an hour-long Twitter chat with other educators. Find a few educators from the chat to follow on Twitter. Then, reflect on your experience participating in the chat. Share this reflection on the Twitter chat on the blog. What new insights or resources did you gain? Reflect on the experience of chatting with educators as well as the content of the chat. Be sure to note the topic of your chat and to quote a few tweets in your response. You might also post a link to the archive, if one becomes available.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Choose among the following chats:

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#engchat, Mondays at 7 pm, [|http://www.engchat.org] (see calendar for topics)


 * 1) nctechat, 3rd Sunday at 8 pm, http://www.ncte.org/community/nctechat **This is my top recommendation, given the limited frequency of other chats this summer.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">#literacies chat, every other Thursday at 8pm, [|http://literacieschat.wordpress.com]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**Alternatives (updated 7/14/15):**

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. #edtechchat, Mondays 8-9 pm, https://edtechchat.wikispaces.com (I can't speak to the quality of this chat, as I am not a regular participant.)

2. Spend some time reading through the [|English Companion Ning], looking specifically into the community called "Language Study: Grammar, Conventions, Style." If you're making up for more than 30 minutes of class, start with the language study community, but then broaden your research into other topics of interest that may be relevant to our class (e.g., Teaching Writing). Reflect on your findings on the blog. <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What new insights or resources did you gain? You may also analyze the grammar recommendations, comparing them to the different theories of grammar that we examined in class. Reflect on the experience of browsing through the ning as well as the content of the discussion boards. Be sure to note the topic of your discussion thread and to include direct quotations in your response. You might also post a direct link to a helpful discussion, though you'll need to be a member of the community to access the content.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Depending on your familiarity with Twitter, you may need to boost your own Twitter literacy before you join a chat. Here are two resources to get you started.

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